Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Nauru and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Dave Clark Five to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Depeche Mode,
Matthew Halsall,
The Divine Comedy,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Grass Roots,
ABC,
Darondo,
JFA,
Lou Christie,
Yellowson,
The Fuzztones,
Patti Smith,
Icehouse,
Radiohead,
Black Sheep,
Royal Trux,
Eric Dolphy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rakim,
the Germs,
Spoonie Gee,
Oblivians,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Babytalk,
David Axelrod,
Kayak,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Second Layer,
Visage,
Minor Threat,
Pagans,
The Human League,
Deadbeat,
Sam Rivers,
Crash Course in Science,
The Tremeloes,
The Young Rascals,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
John Lydon,
The Martian,
Surgeon,
Television Personalities,
Erykah Badu,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ossler,
The Names,
Ten City,
T. Rex,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gerry Rafferty,
Flipper,
Con Funk Shun,
Buzzcocks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Maurizio,
Procol Harum,
The Monochrome Set,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Glenn Branca,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.